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tition was made of the estates which she had held in 

 dower between her husband's co-heirs, the descend- 

 ants of his three sisters, viz. John, Duke of Norfolk, 

 grandson of one sister Elizabeth, who had married 

 Thomas, Duke of Norfolk ; Lady Elizabeth Nevill, 

 granddaughter of Joan, Lady Abergavenny, a second 

 sister ; and Edmund Lenthal, son of Margaret wife of 

 Sir Roland Lenthal, a third sister.' 3 Since Edmund 

 Lenthal was then a minor Sir Roland Lenthal, perhaps 

 his father," had the custody of his lands till he came of 

 age, 16 June 1441." Among these was one-third of 

 certain houses within the castle of Reigate, 76 and Ed- 

 ward Lord Abergavenny held at his death by right of 

 his wife Lady Elizabeth Nevill another third of the 

 castle and liberties." No further trace of tenure 

 either by the Lenthal or Nevill families has been 

 found, but in a later plea it is stated that by an agree- 

 ment between the three sisters, Elizabeth, Joan, and 

 Margaret, the whole of Reigate was assigned as the 

 purparty of Elizabeth and her husband, Thomas Duke 

 of Norfolk. 78 The whole manor seems to have been 

 in the possession of the latter's great-grandson, John 

 Duke of Norfolk, 79 who, in September 1474, settled it 

 on his wife Elizabeth. 80 In 1477 she conveyed her 

 life interest to Elizabeth (Wydeville), Queen of Ed- 

 ward IV, 81 but in the same year Katharine, widow of 

 the late duke's grandfather and sister-in-law of the 

 queen, was holding the manor in dower. 8 ' The 

 remainder was then settled on Anne, the duke's only 

 daughter and heir, at her betrothal to Richard the un- 

 fortunate Duke of York, murdered in I483. 83 The co- 

 heirs of Anne were the representatives of her great-aunts, 

 viz., William Marquess of Ber- 

 keley, John Howard, created 

 Duke of Norfolk in 1483, 

 Thomas Earl of Derby, and 

 Sir John Wingfield. The 

 manor was apparently divided 

 between them, for William 

 Marquess of Berkeley was in 

 possession of one-fourth in 

 1489." His brother and heir 

 Maurice, from whom he en- 

 deavoured to alienate his in- 

 heritance, 64 recovered one- 

 fourth of Reigate from the 



Crown in 1503." In the following year he con- 

 veyed this purparty to Sir Edward Poynings, kt., H 

 and others, probably to sell, for he is said to have 



BERKELEY. Gules a 

 chrvcron between tin 

 crosses formy argent. 



HOWARD. Gules 

 bend between six crosslets 

 ftcby argent. 



parted with his quarter to Thomas Howard, Earl of 

 Surrey, son of John Duke of Norfolk. 88 



John, Duke of Norfolk, fell at Bosworth, August 

 1485, and was attainted in the following November. 85 

 His interest in Reigate thus fell 

 to the Crown, 80 but was not 

 regranted to Thomas with his 

 father's other lands in 1489." 

 Henry VIII granted the manor 

 of Reigate to Agnes, widow 

 of Thomas, in dower." His 

 son, Thomas Duke of Nor- 

 folk, was attainted in January 

 1 546-7," and the farm of his 

 moiety of the manor was 

 granted in March 1550-1 to 

 his half-brother William Ho- 

 ward, afterwards Baron Howard 



of Effingham. 94 His widow Margaret held a court 

 in I574- 95 Their son and heir Charles, Lord High 

 Admiral, created Earl of Nottingham in 1596, held 

 one moiety of the manor in his own right and leased 

 the other moiety from the Earl of Derby. 96 He settled 

 his moiety on his wife Margaret, 97 who, after his death in 

 December 1624, married William, afterwards Viscount 

 Monson 98 of Castlemaine. After her death in 1 639 s9 

 this half of the manor appears to have reverted to her 

 husband'sheir male, Charles, second Earl of Nottingham, 

 whose half-brother, the third earl of that name, sold it 

 to John Goodwyn I0 in 164%.* The latter held a 

 court jointly with James, Duke 

 of York, in 1672, and in 

 1683 his interest was vested in 

 Dean Goodwyn, 101 who with 

 Charles Goodwyn released his 

 moiety to James shortly after 

 his accession to the throne. 10 ' 



Thomas Earl of Derby, the 

 third co-heir to the lands of 

 Anne Mowbray (see above), 

 appears to have acquired the 

 Wingfield quarter of the manor 

 in addition to his own. 108 He 

 was succeeded by his grandson 



Thomas, who died seised of this moiety in 1 52 1. 104 

 His widow held it in dower. 165 



During the lifetime of his son and ultimate heir, 

 Henry fourth Earl of Derby, the Earl of Nottingham 

 had a lease of it. 106 After the death of his son 



STANLEY. Urgent a 



bend azure 'with three 

 harts' heads caboshed or 

 thereon. 



~' s Cal. Pat. 1436-41, p. 483. 



"* Sir Roland, the father, is said to have 

 married a second time (Devon Vis'st. [Harl. 

 Soc. vii], 169). His second wife seems 

 to have been named Lucy (Cal. Pat. 

 1429-36, p. 446). 



"''Cal. Pat. 1436-4,1, p. 562. 



''Mint. Accts. (Gen. Ser.) bdle. 1120, 

 no. i. 



77 Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Edw. IV, file 66, 

 m. 22. 



78 Plac. in Caneellaria (Rolls Chapel 

 Ser.), bdle I, no. 29. 



' Feet of F. Div. Co. 8 Edw. IV, 64 5 

 cf. Chart. R. 8-10 Edw. IV, no. 14. 



"Add. Chart. (B.M.), 7619, 7629. In 

 the settlement on the Duke of York it is 

 called ' the halvendale ' or moiety of 

 Reigate ; cf. also Chan. Proc. Eliz. H. h. 

 xvii, 3. 



81 Feet of F. Div. Co. 16 Edw. IV, 

 116. 



88 Part. R. (Rec. Com.), vi, 1 68*. 



88 Ibid. 



Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 5 Hen. VII. 



85 Fosbroke, Lives of the Berkeley*, passim. 



86 Par/. R. (Rec. Com.), vi, 529 ; Placita 

 in Caneellaria, bdle. I, no. 29. 



"7 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 19 Hen. 

 VII. 



88 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 

 276. 



89 G.E.C. Peerage, vi, 47. 



90 Par!. R. (Rec. Com.), vi, 336 ; Mar. 

 for Hist, of Hen. VII (Rolls Ser.), ii, 138. 



91 Parl. R. vi, 426*. 



M L. and P. Hen. r///,xv,4 9 8 (p. 220). 



98 Agnes the dowager duchess died in 

 the preceding May, and it appears from 

 the terms of the grant to William Howard 

 that the duke held the farm of Reigate 

 until his attainder. 



54 Partic. for Grants (Aug. Off.), 1710 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxv, 172. It 

 had been leased to John Skynner in 1547. 



5 Ct. R. 



235 



96 Chan. Proc. Eliz. H. h, xvii, 3. 

 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxii, 

 69. 



98 Hist. AfSS. Com. Rep. iv, 386. 



99 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 334. 



100 M.P. for Godalming 1640, for Rei- 

 gate 1656. Hewasabuyer of church lands 

 and sequestrated estates. See Farnham. 



N* 1 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 23 Chas. I. 



i^Ct. R. 1683. He was M.P. for 

 Reigate 1678-81. 



102 Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. 2 Jas. II. 



1M He was first lord with Thomas 

 Earl of Surrey in 1496 (Manning and 

 Bray, op. cit. i, 278) ; and from Chan. 

 Proc. Eliz. H. h, xvii, 3, it appears that, by 

 that time, there were only two moieties, 

 owned respectively by the Earl of Derby 

 and Charles, Earl of Nottingham. 



104 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxxii, 

 no. 



15 L. and P. Hen. nil, iii, 2820. 



10 See above. 



